NIGERIA: Country Falling Apart Due to Rising Insecurity, Church Warns
By Arnold Neliba
ABUJA, FEBRUARY 26, 2021 (CISA)-The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) in a Tuesday, warned against country’s imminent collapse going by the alarming spate of insecurity ravaging different parts of the country.
“The country is falling apart due to seriously rising insecurity clearly evident in the widespread loss of lives and property triggered by the increasing number of bandits, Boko Haram, killer herdsmen and other criminal elements across the country,” the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) has warned.
In a February 23 statement signed by the President of CBCN, Archbishop Augustine Akubueze and the Secretary, Most Rev. Camillus Raymond Umoh, the bishops said the country had remained together by the grace of God, but expressed displeasure that the survival of Nigeria was hanging on a precipice at the moment.